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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tinpot, post: 1605152, member: 35836&quot;]I believe in certain cases yes. Other legitimate reasons for spikes not related to the dollar would be increases or decreases in either the supply or demand. The problem with supply and demand accounting for all the price changes (that aren&#039;t already accounted for by changing value of the dollar) is you would not see the incredible fluctuations that we see now. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think gold is a much steadier market than silver because it is much more difficult to manipulate, the total value of all gold mined throughout history is probably close to 10 trillion dollars. While all the silver available is probably close to 500 billion (and that is probably a high end estimate). So you can see why it would be much easier to move the silver market than the gold. </p><p><br /></p><p>Another thing to keep in mind is if someone wants to manipulate the price downwards, they don&#039;t have to manufacture the entire move themselves. There are many technical traders out there, so if they can move the price enough to trigger a sell signal for these technical traders, then they don&#039;t have to do all the work themselves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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